Is the Biden-Harris administration an Iranian fifth column?
The extraordinary situation has arisen, in the deadly game of geopolitical multi-dimensional chess that Israel is being forced to play in the war being waged against it by Iran, where the Jewish state has remarkably achieved checkmate — but as a result, America is trying to cancel the match.
The Israel Defence Forces are now dominant in Gaza and are well on the way to achieving their objective of destroying Hamas as a military force. As explained here by the former British Army officer Andrew Fox, the IDF has pulverised the Hamas battalions and taken control of the all-important Philadelphi corridor — all the while trying to ensure the safety of Palestinian civilians, in the teeth of the Hamas strategy of using them as human sacrifices to get the credulous and malign western media to bay for Israel to surrender.
Given the scale of the challenge posed by Hamas, which no other army has ever faced in a campaign waged both above and below ground and with the entire civilian population used as human shields and cannon fodder, the Gaza campaign is far from over. The IDF needs to continue its hard slog in order to ensure the final defeat of Hamas, which left to itself it will do.
At the same time, Israel has now managed to box Iran into a corner. The Tehran regime faces a lose-lose dilemma. If it does what it has daily threatened to do, to launch massive barrages of rockets and missiles against Israel’s key infrastructure and inflict major casualties on Israeli civilians, it knows that Israel will respond by destroying its oil wells, nuclear sites and other key targets, thus reducing Iran’s economy and regional muscle to rubble and threatening the survival of the regime itself. But if it adopts a more minimalist retaliation for last month’s assassination in Tehran of the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, which has been attributed to Israel, it will badly lose face and credibility which it cannot afford to do.
With speculative reports that Iran may now be testing a nuclear weapon, it is way past time for the unconscionable Iranian threat to be decisively neutralised. America, which has always said it would never allow a nuclear Iran, has bent over backwards to enable that precise outcome — first through the 2015 Obama deal which would have legitimised an Iranian nuclear weapon after only a few years delay, and then by the Biden administration which has continued to appease Iran and funnel money into its coffers through sanctions relief.
And now — astonishingly — the Biden administration, which has assiduously tried to prevent the IDF from destroying Iran’s major asset, Hamas, in Gaza, is doing everything it can to prevent Israel from attacking and thus neutralising Iran.
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